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5 Korona Győr
| Issuer | Magyar Általános Hitelbank Győri Fiókja (Hungarian General Credit Bank, Győr Branch) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 5 Korona |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper Pénztárjegy (cash note) with a simple typeset layout within a thin rectangular border. The issuer's name "Magyar Általános Hitelbank Győri Fiókja" appears at the top, below which a serif-type ornamental band with floral rosette motifs frames the series letter and serial number. The denomination "K 5 azaz Öt koronáról" is set in bold letterpress at centre, with the issuance date "Győr, 1919. május 6-án" and two manuscript signature lines below; a circular embossed dry stamp appears at upper left, and a lightly printed underprint of the bank's name runs diagonally across the centre field. |
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| Protection type | Embossed stamp |
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The winter and spring of 1919 produced an extraordinary proliferation of locally issued emergency money across Hungary as the postwar collapse of central monetary authority left towns and commercial institutions printing their own substitutes. This note is one such Notgeld-equivalent, issued by the Győr branch of one of Hungary's most significant prewar financial institutions — a bank whose Budapest headquarters had no meaningful ability to regulate what its provincial offices were doing in those months.
The embossed stamp served as the primary authentication device, a low-cost security measure that was easily replicated and widely adopted across Hungarian municipal and commercial issues of the same period.